President Bush Monday rejected the option of deportation for the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the US, asking Congress to keep in mind “that we are talking about human beings, decent human beings” as it prepared to take up the immigration reform issue again after a two week recess. In a speech to the [...]

So Long as They Die: Lethal Injections in the United States, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Brigham County v. Stewart , a case in which the Court will clarify the type of emergency situation required to justify a warrantless entry made by police without knocking and announcing their presence. Four police officers in Brigham County, Utah, entered a home without a [...]

A federal judge in Boston Monday dismissed a suit filed in 2004 by twelve members of the US armed forces represented by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) challenging the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy requiring them to keep their sexual orientation secret or face discharge. The case was one of first impression for [...]

Kenneth Lay , former CEO and founder of Enron , told a jury Monday that the collapse of the company in 2001 has caused him "hurt and destruction and pain" on a level that compares, he said, to “absolutely nothing in my life.” Lay and another former Enron CEO, Jeffrey Skilling , have been charged [...]

Forty-nine leftist Philippines politicians, including six current lawmakers and former Senator Gregorio Honasan , face charges of rebellion for allegedly conspiring with the Communist Party of the Philippines to kill and replace President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo , officials announced Monday. According to Senior State Prosecutor Emmanual Velasco, the accused "established a tactical alliance" and conspired [...]

The jury in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui began deliberations Monday on whether to spare his life or to execute him for conspiring in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 . At the close of arguments at his sentencing trial in a courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia, government prosecutors told jurors they could "put an end [...]

Nepal's King Gyanendra on Monday reinstated the Nepal House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament dissolved by the then prime minister in 2002, saying that the assembly would convene on Friday. In a televised address , Gyanendra said: Convinced that the source of State Authority and Sovereignty of the Kingdom of Nepal is inherent [...]

Iraqi prosecutors Monday played in court a taped phone conversation allegedly between Saddam Hussein and co-defendant Taha Yassin Ramadan , a former vice president, where the two discussed the situation in Dujail. The voice attributed to Ramadan reported the destruction of farmland and palm groves in the village where the former leaders are accused of [...]

Australian prosecutors on Monday accused a Pakistani-born Australian immigrant of planning to bomb one of two targets in Sydney in one of the first cases to be tried under the country's new post 9/11 anti-terrorism laws . Faheem Khalid Lodhi, who immigrated to Australia in 1996, has pleaded not guilty to four charges and is [...]